Women’s Golf Seeded No. 2; Sent to Washington for Regional

DURHAM – The Duke women’s golf team received its 31st-consecutive bid to participate in NCAA Regional action on Wednesday as the Blue Devils were seeded No. 2 in the Cle Elum Regional and will travel to Cle Elum, Wash., from May 6-8 to play for an invitation to the NCAA Championship. The regional will be played at the Tumblecreek Club.
 
Other teams competing in the regional are Stanford, Arizona State, Virginia, San Jose State, Washington, Alabama, Virginia Tech, Kansas, Long Beach State, Sacramento State and Seattle University. 
 
The regional will be a three-day, 54-hole tournament with 18 holes played each day. Duke opens action on Monday, May 6.
 

The NCAA regionals feature six different regional sites with 12 teams (72 total) and six individuals (36 total). The top five teams and top individual (not on an advancing team) will advance from each regional site to the championships, which will be held for the first time at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif., May 17-22.
 
Over Duke’s history of playing in the NCAA Regionals, it will mark the first time the Blue Devils have bene sent to the state of Washington.  The furthest Duke had previously been sent away from home was Albuquerque, N.M., in 2017.  The Blue Devils did win the 2002 NCAA Championship in Auburn, Wash. 
 
Duke enters regional action coming off a solid finish at the ACC Championship in Wilmington, N.C.  The Blue Devils carded a 7-under-par, 281, to make a run at match play, but finished one shot behind the fourth-place team and concluded in fifth.  In the final round, freshman Katie Li carded a 5-under, 67, and sophomore Andie Smith posted a 3-under, 69, to help lead Duke to the second-best score on Saturday. 
 
The Blue Devils have collected 10 NCAA Regional Team Championships over the last 27 years – 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015 and 2018.  The 10 regional titles rank second nationally behind Southern California (14).
 
Brooks has guided the Blue Devils to an NCAA Division I record 143 career wins and 21 of Duke’s 22 ACC titles. In his 40 seasons at Duke, Brooks has led the Blue Devils to seven NCAA Championships (1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2014 and 2019) and has taken his squad to the NCAA Regionals every year since 1993.
 
This year’s women’s golf championships will be broadcast…